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VietNamNet Bridge – The rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the country fell by 16 per cent between 2009 and 2015, but health experts have said that more needs to be done to reach the goal of having a transmission rate of under 2 per cent by 2020 nationwide.
Many pregnant women in the country are not aware that they are infected with HIV until they are diagnosed during labour or after birth.
A 24-year-old pregnant woman from Nha Trang in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, for example, was diagnosed with HIV in the operating room prior to delivery.
The woman had been advised to test for HIV infection during her pregnancy, but she had refused.
After birth, the baby was given a preventive drug, and four weeks later, the infant tested positive for HIV.
Dr Raphael Landovitz of the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles, said it was “very dangerous if pregnant women with HIV do not know their status and go without … [Read more...] about Vietnam aims to reduce mother-to-child transmission rate of HIV to under 2 percent

New influenza vaccine factory put into operation
A vaccine factory capable of producing about 1.5 million doses of A/H5N1 influenza vaccine for human use a year became operational on December 12 in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa.
According to the Institute of Vaccines and Medical Biology (IVAC) under the Ministry of Health, factory is one of the six first ones funded by the World Health Organisation in developing countries.
Approved by the Prime Minister in 2008, the factory, which meets the good manufacturing practice standard known as WHO-GMP, successfully apply the technology of producing the vaccine from inseminated eggs.
A farm breeding 7,000 chickens to provide biologically safe materials for the factory was set up.
In 2011, IVAC produced three lots of A/H1N1 influenza vaccine which were successfully tested on human in southern Long An province.
Nine more lots were produced in 2012, meeting the quality standards of the WHO and European Pharmacopoeia. The lots are now … [Read more...] about Social Headlines December 14

Human traffickers jailed for 80 years
The People's Court in the southern Tay Ninh province yesterday sentenced 23 defendants to 80 years in jail for human trafficking, illegal money lending and fraud with the intent to appropriate property.
The harshest sentence, 12 years and six months in jail, was given to Nguyen Truong Son, 39, the head of the ring, from Tay Ninh Province. His wife, Tran Thi Co, 34, was given a four-year jail sentence.
The indictment by the provincial People's Procurary said the couple, along with other members of the gang, cheated and forced some 40 women to work at a karaoke bar. They also lent money to these women as monthly stipends at very high interest rates. The couple is believed to have earned more than VND1.2 billion (US$56,000) from such illegal money lending.
In addition to being loan sharks, the couple also confessed that they had trafficked 20 women.
Man killed in road accident
A man was killed instantly while five persons were injured when a … [Read more...] about Social Headlines December 25